Hypertensive
heart disease includes a number of complications of
high blood pressure that affect the heart. While there are several definitions of hypertensive
heart disease in the medical literature,the term is most widely used in the context of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding categories. The definition includes
heart failure and other cardiac complications of
hypertension when a causal
relationship between the
heart disease and
hypertension is stated or implied on the death certificate. In 2013 hypertensive
heart disease resulted in 1.07 million deaths as compared with 630,000 deaths in 1990.
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